‘Post delivery in trouble in big cities as delivery staff sacked’

TNT Post is facing serious problems with its household delivery services, particularly in the big cities, the Telegraaf says in a front page splash on Monday.

And the company has basically admitted in a letter to delivery workers that delivery services are worse than they used to be by accusing them of not doing their job properly, the paper says.
‘We are hearing the same noises from Amsterdam and towards Alkmaar and Den Bosch,’ Inge Bakker of the CNV public workers unions said. ‘It is the same all over the Randstad (the central urban area)’.
Mass redundancy
The unions are campaigning against TNT’s plans to sack up to 11,000 delivery workers. This weekend, several hundred took part in a demonstration in Rotterdam.
In the letter, to workers in The Hague region, the management said: ‘as a company we are not in a position to deliver the post on time, particularly on Saturday and Monday’.
The company plans to reorganise its delivery services following the start of cheap competition from budget delivery firms who focus on mass mailings and pay their workers per item delivered rather than a fixed salary.
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